The film noir genre is a staple of classic cinema that reached its pinnacle point of popularity during the 1940s with iconic classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity. Rooted in ...

We take a look at an underrated and overlooked gem you probably haven’t seen: Stephen Frears’ The Hit… With Noirvember ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, film noir became arguably Hollywood's most popular film genre, with crime dramas and thrillers adding darkness to the already popular gangster genre. While gangster movies were ...

At their center, noirs deal with the blurred line between heroes and villains, showing how fast a good person can slip into the dark depths. No movie illustrates that tension better than The Big Heat, ...

Classic Hollywood has a somewhat unearned reputation for being easy, cheerful viewing, full of giddy musicals and sweet love stories. Film noir of the 1940s and ‘50s cut right through these ...

"British cinema made in the studio system managed to blend popular entertainment with some of the most stylistically innovative forms, elevating it to the status of art," says curator Ehsan Khoshbakht ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...